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For anyone out there who wants to keep in touch, this blog has moved to: http://geekswithblogs.net/rumair/.

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I will be moving this blog to a new location soon.... Blogger is good but iText is better. This page will be history as I start the painful process of moving all of my rants one by one manually to this blogs new location. Soon the only thing left on this page will be a redirection to my new blog address.

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The reason that data structures and algorithms can work together seamlessly is ... that they do not know anything about each other. - Alex Stepanov

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Disney may be taking a cue from Mission Impossible with its latest development, DVDs that become unreadable 48 hours after being opened. This new technology allows any retailer to become a movie vendor with a small collection of DVDs, but the design is also ground-breaking. The movies are known as EZ-D, and once the package is opened and exposed to oxygen, it starts a countdown that culminates in

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It will come someday soon. When passwords will be outdated my much secure and better ways of authtication leading to better security. The tamper resistant ID-card software has been developed by Microsoft's research arm and was demonstrated during Gate's keynote for RSA. To create an ID card, the software requires a photograph and some basic information about the user, for example, name and

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What Is a Weblog? A weblog is a Web page that one or more people update on a regular basis, usually with time-stamped entries. It can be personal, technical, or just about any topic. Many people abbreviate weblog to just blog. Rai Umair thinks it's a little strange that an abbreviation has an abbreviation, but there you go. Besides, why is abbreviation such a long word? You can think of it as

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'The Best ERP Vendor Experience' report by Forrester Research. Summary: ERP apps are a commodity. Who can tell one G/L from another? Users should assess ERP vendors based on how easy they are to work with. The best so far is MAPICS. Download: http://www.mapics.com/downloads/documents/forrester-erp.pdf

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Here comes an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. It is an assembly that allows you to parse "out of the web" HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with "real world" malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to what proposes System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams). Sample applications: * Page fixing or generation. You can fix a page

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I wish I had that much financial muscle; a really nice piece of dialog I liked from the God Father Part III (one of the favorite movies) is that ‘Finance is a gun and politics is the Art Of Knowing when to pull the trigger’. Well Forbes latest Billionaire List is out and Bill Gates with $ 46.82 billion tops again, but what I really like about the new list is that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are

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Software solutions cater to business or in this case individual problems. One such sticky idea is sort of the Post-it notes for the digital era. Well I was thinking of developing a Taskbar application where I can sketch out little ideas, tasks and put alarms to it and guess what 3M has got one for instant download and that too for FREE: Post-it LITE Software Notes on your computer let you: •

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I have a confession to make; Australia’s to me is the most online country in terms of government, businesses, and people. All there websites are nicely done and it looks quiet convenient moving from one site to another finding details, getting answers to questions and if you live there, pay bill, taxes and do what not online. It’s truly surprising to see so much stuff online in Australia; the

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Play this nifty flash quiz, well I am not disappointed to find out that I can not be a Billionaire but then that’s not on my priority list any way. Play and share the results, guys pasting comments on my blog does not charge money, so take at go at it. Wham! http://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004/cx_mn_0226quiz_bill04.html

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I recently read Eric Sinks article Longhorn Developer Center: Be Careful Where You Build (The Business of Software). A little point I would like mentioned is: Hey the best thing for ISV's is to study the roadmap from all the big vendors and read the latest to be trends. This will decrease the uncertenity in there decisons and will lead to better understanding of the future trends in this ever

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information about it.... I guess Samuel Johnson was thinking about the web when he said this. In todays world of information overload, finding let alone knowing the requisite stuff is hard if not impossible. Good web search tatctics and ultra sharp memory is needed to recall the latest and greatest around us.

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I came to know that Microsoft Research is interested to study emergent individual and group behaviors associated with the ability to digital tag objects and places. In our system, a user can associate text, threaded conversations, audio, images, video or other data with a specific tag. Users can review the tags they have encountered and annotated in a custom web portal. Optionally, they can opt

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Hey Microsoft is using URL renaming on their main site, hmmm… sort of looks like something that we were working on GotDotNet.com's Workspaces. For the ever curious, the project was titled ReWrite.NET. Well the rewriting of URLs on the fly is great, for example visiting http://www.microsoft.com/mcad (not the actual address) will forward you to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcad/ (the real

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We humans are so funny, for example just yesterday my friend lowered his car’s sound system to a halt in respect of a grave yard we were passing along side the road. I guess there is nothing bad in it, respect for the dead is important to me too, but like do we ever mind doing the same for the people who are alive and can hear and get irritated by all the loud noises and sound we tend to indulge

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See what the Goosini Has to Say to You: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/features/goosini/index.jsp

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He he, I have to admit I have been naughty lately and have done this more then once for personal gains, Its a neat little trick to invite and increase traffic to your blog. So what to do you ask. Well simply visit top ranking blogs (you can find tons runiung a simple query on google) and paste your link in there with a nice review in the comments section of the blog. Search engines that use

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Surprise, Surprise! Now you can add, read and stay updated with Managed|Core using an Atom formatted XML site feed. It is intended to be viewed in a Newsreader or syndicated to another site. So hurry up add the link at the bottom to your favourite news aggregater. XML Feed : not everything you ever wanted!

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Young and old programmers alike make many a assumptions, mistakes and perspectives learning the rules of the trade and with time turn them into a habit, that they are not ready to or are unable to part with as they progress (hopefully upwards) on the software development ladder and then it hits them that they have to change. I don’t blame them for it (I don’t blame me). It sure needs an eye

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I am a month behind my reading, bookmarks overloaded, last semester (well not entirely) at the university, watching God Father 1,2,3 reruns for the 100th time and guess what sleeps too much and to often at the come. Crazy feelings, stupid questions and never ending ambitions rule the little state of affairs in my rational components, but the art and logic is on the loose again. Cheers till we

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It's easier than you think to become a human lie detector. Just Look for constant Suspicious Behaviors, Here's the top eight list of suspicious behaviors: -A change in the voice's pitch. -A change in the rate of speech. -A sudden increase in the number of "ums" and "ahs." -A change in eye contact. Normally, one makes eye contact one-quarter to one-half of the time. If suddenly, at the

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Want to read blogs, keep up, have them delivered to your email use Bot a Blog. (These use crawlers too...) Bot A Blog: Free blog update notifications by e-mail

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Just recently we had this activity of reading out the future trends in the top segments in our MIS class, Guess what I got to do the winner technology of the computers segment. WebFountain A analysis engine making sense of the web: its not a merry search engine spitting links matching pages to your keywords but some thing that understands what you have asked and will come up with a reference

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I was reading my older blog, and found this one little gem of a piece that I wanted to share here too: Hares a way how one can log any uses web browsing activity... All you have to do is tweak a little keys value in the windows registry. The exact address of the key I discovered: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix Just change the value of default

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Gizmodo is an online review dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics. Gizmodo

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.NET Wire, Keep Up with .NET News and Articles: .NET Wire .NET Books, Read and Review the Latest .NET Books: .NET Books .NET Tools Page On GotDOTNET: Tools Page .NET Tools Page at MadGeek: Sharp ToolBox

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Some Suff for the Google Fans and the Seach Bluffs: - Want to keep up with the mighty search engne follow the Google Blog. - Lots Of Fun Tools like the which term is more polpular on the web: Search is Fun And now my favourite WHOIS (Find About Who Owns a Domain, IPs and DNS details) websites: - Detailed, fast and Infomation about any domain name: DomainWhitePages - Ability to search domain

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Crawler Alert - Automatically get an email notification whenever a search engine crawler (spider/agent/robot) is scanning your website. A crawler is a program used by serach engines to visit websites and webpages, collect links and the contents of the pages to build huge indexes. Which are inturn used when you search using the search engines. http://www.crawler-alert.com/ Crawlers (they have

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You know SETI@Home... Want to keep up with distributed or grid computing go catch the latest at: Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects All people new to distributed computing can read this very informative article captioned 'Distributed Computing: An Introduction' at http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3428,a=25002,00.asp I am working on a very exciting 'distrbuted' project

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You Like .net. .net Likes You... Thats what the funny but interesting Advertising Slogan Generator came up for the word .NET. Sorry No Keyboard! Mouse up some slogans for FREE at: http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi

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Relearn the concepts you have learnt in the past. Visit this interesting blog on Manageability.org. Covering core computer science concepts, primarily focused on new ways at looking at common concepts. Manageability - concepts: "Why everything you know is wrong."

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The Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA) is a tool that provides the ability to convert Java code and library calls to Microsoft Visual C# .NET. Built based on the ArtinSoft migration technology, this second version adds a number of additional features to its abilities. This includes the ability to convert code from both the client and the server. Developers will be able to convert Web as

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At last! my friend's got a blog and you can read it at: Amalgamation - Life ... Inst It Funny Three cheers for my buddy Nauman: Hip Hip Horay!... (repeat 2 more times please.)

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Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser. Try one that changes the color of this blog: > Zap This... Adding them is simple as right clicking and adding them to your favourites. Hundreds of very usefull and Interesting BookMarkLets are available at: - Bookmarklets - Jesse's BookMarkLets

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Long Time No Ranting... The Finals are here its really hectic, no other work as the story goes... there has to be more to life then this! Well I am staying with my friends for most of this Ramadan. Its fun to study togather. 3 Finals are done and more are to follow. In the mean time I have been learning a lot of newe stuff from the text books and my continous reading habit of the net. hehe We.. I

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Flipping accross 'All in a Day' page in some old Reader Digest I came accross Reading a nice little piece in the My friends technique of making others do as he would really like is by letting go infact saying and reacing oppsotiely to ones surprise always makes the other pwerson give up with any thing before he even started, Nauman and I share this techjiniqw with a common name as conied by

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Hmmm.... long time and no ranting(writing for my blog)? I wont blame me on that, cos I was too busy working with my friends and even strangers on some heavy duty technical support (which turns out that I will be building the whole or at least some part of the projects). I don't know but I can't say no to any body and in the end what happens is that the projects get done right in the end giving

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Well the SCONEST speech went all to fine... the audience was thin for the grand 400 seat auditorium at 'Bahria University' but was enough to get my spirits rolling. The speech went fine and we all had a nice time because I tried to involve the audience as much as I could. I hope no one was too broed, ;-) hehe.. A few mishaps or glitches worth mentioning is our ordeal in getting a fresh copy of

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Emoticons For All Well they just don't stop coming, do they? Every day you find one new splendid little icon to show of your feelings. MSN 6 has got some real cute ones this time including the (ci) for cigar and +0) for Sick Smiley.

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I will be conducting a Workshop (2 hours) on '.NET and your First .NET Application" at SCONEST (if you already don't know what SCONEST is well its an anual confrence held by the leading universites of Pakistan and studetns come there to present thier research papers on various IT realted topics) workshop day at Bahria University, Karachi. You can learn more about SCONEST by visiting the offical

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Well Said and Brave Opinion of Lynn Chidester from Salt Lake City "I read with curious interest the letter of Berkley Hoffer on Sept. 28 regarding President Clinton's lie. Mr. Hoffer, you don't need to prove Clinton's lie, he admitted the whole sordid affair to the entire nation. President Bush has lied to the entire world about weapons of mass destruction, poisonous gasses, Iraq's ties to 9-

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DotNetPakistan.com is Up ! Horray.. Visit INETA Pakistan, Today.

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The ART OF MOVING objects... now you will say whats so speaical about it. Well it is cos you dont get to touch the stuff, you use your head or the powerfull waves/engery or 'chi' (in Japanese) to do all the mircalus stuff, learn more about it from here.

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Blogger is although the best and the finest blogging tool available on the net today but unfortunately it does not offer commenting features or ‘annotations’ as they call them for the blogs so I did some research and it turned out that you can have a third party annotation tool setup easily and for free. So with out wasting any more time I simply got one for "Managed|Core" right away from

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Try this: While sitting in a chair, lift your right foot off the ground and rotate it clockwise. Then with your right hand, draw a number 6 in the air. Your right foot tries to go the other way.. doesn't it?

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I have always been a fan of documentation. Learning the tricks of the trade through hardcore documentation reading. I must say Allaire the creators of ColdFusion (which now belongs to Macromedia) really did a first-rate job creating their DOCS and the best thing about them was that all the documentation had a solid universal and navigatoabele design let alone the excellent content. .NET

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Why do sites insist on making people click a 'Remember Me' checkbox? Unless you're a Hotmail.com with a highly-mobile user base on public machines, most of your users are coming from the same machines -- their own -- over and over. Make it an option, but save your users a click and turn it on by default.* You are not doing anyone any favours by using the opt-in philosophy on this issue. That

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Two very entertaining as well as very .NET centric media weeklies (not to be missed) are the '.NET Show' a TV series about all things .NET and a Radio Talk Show called '.NET Rocks!'. Both the shows invite experts as guests and are filled with great educational interviews. As I live in Pakistan I don’t get to watch or hear the aired versions of both the shows but then that’s ok because I always

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In developing form ware applications we developers occasionally come across the situation of restricting the user to input to numbers only. I usually used the Regular Expression support in .NET for this task but then I discovered another way (from my friend and PakSpirit.net UG leader Misbah) and would like to share with you all here. Here's the meaty part: if (char.IsNumber(e.KeyChar)) {

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Quite a lot's up with the buddying .NET community in Karachi. The .NET User Group Karachi (DNUG) has doubled in size since our first meet. Various sessions on .NET have taken place at FAST, HU and SZABIST. Our group along with INETA Pakistan activities has also been featured in this months INETA newsletter. Take a sneak peak of the news letter's working copy here. Other then all that we are

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Its once again that time of the year where cricket fever (not my favorite game) strikes every body at SZABIST. We are once again up with the cricket tournament where only the fit (classes) survive and the leaders (class vs. class) take the honor. We had our first match today and bowling fist we succeeded in giving only 75 runs and while batting we won by 8 wickets and with 12 balls left still to

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The day started not to well for me. I had over slept till 8 (the exact time our coaster was to leave from SZABIST). I just done away with the bare minimums and processed towards SZABIST where I found all the (about 18) people were still out there waiting for the to coaster to arrive. Being late eventually did not matter much. Our coaster driver was a real dare devil and my friend I finally

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The much anticipated and fought over class (BCS 2004) picnic is tomorrow (this might as well be our last also, but hopefully not). My energy has all but depleted after giving 10 hourlies in the last two weeks. The constant hectic (I wont say study, cos I really don't study...) has rendered my brain useless and now when I plan to write my paper “Acroweb: Web Mining for Acronyms” (of which a

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We all know how all that Java Byte Code and IL could be reverse engineered back into human readable source code... and trust me it does not take a genius to do all that. So how to protect you’re Intellectual Property? Guess what... By watermarking it! (now why did I not think of this before!) Yes you can protect your source code now by water marking it using this FREE Service by FixMySite. It

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Piled Higher and Deeper is a Grad students comic strip... it depicts the reality in the life of a grad student (like me) with a humored insight. Enjoying reading them them all at: Piled Higher and Deeper

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The first meeting was great, the day was hot and the sun shining but that did not deter me and my trustful friend Nauman to make a trip across the city to NED University. It was big aright! (But! not us huge as I was expecting). We reached in at about 2:20 and were pleased to find out that the meeting had not started yet. Eventually it did and we the eight people there with the addition of two

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Today I will drive all the way from SZABIST (Clifton) to the NED campus on University Road (I admit. my first time) around 2:00 to attend the fist ever .NET UGs Leaders (Karachi) conference. On the menu is a lot of talk about the future of the .NET community in Karachi and the tasks to be get over with in the coming months. I am all excited for this event, and can’t wait to meet the other UG

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Logic (Mantak) is a must for all to study. It opens up our mind, expand on the way our communications take place and help solve disputes. For Starters: A argument consists of a set of propositions/statements (a statement is a sentence when it affirms something) that can be true or false and a valid argument (in deduction) is the one in which the conclusion follows from the premises. I will

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Is that the Interaction Architect Job Title Generator, or are you just happy to see another one of my rants? Check this - at http://http://www.girlwonder.com/jobs.html, you can randomly create a sweet little job title, rip it off and rebrand yourself. You don't have to do nothin' but sit and click. information begetter, interconnection contriver, coherence philosopher were the few it came

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Yawn... No matter how popular a concept gets there are always people out there oblivious of the change happening around them, living their 'old' life in total oblivion. Can you believe it? There are still people who don’t know what the web services hype is all about. I can write tons about the XML based plain text talk of the town, but would they read it. I guess not. So here’s the deal. For

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The goal of any Coding Standard is to encourage the writing of highly readable and reliable code, the three guides for developing high-quality C# code by iDesign, iCSharpCode and Tiobe respectively are sure resources for pumping up your C# code and taking your C# coding skills to the next level. Read them all; Better yet print em up and keep them next to your machines.

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I'm still feeling my way through blogging as a 'softie. When I first saw Carlos Perez's article "101 Reasons why Java is better than .NET" , my first reaction was to weigh in with comments on the technical (in)accuracies in the article and my opinions on the topic in general (you can guess which side I weigh in on!). Apparently there are still 76 more reasons coming, but they had better get more

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I follow on with all the happenings at Google.com, as they really do come with excellent and usefull services... The new Google News Alerts service is no exception either... For the last couple of weeks I have kept my self up to date with all "Microsoft" and (for my brother) "Karachi Stock Exchange" news by simply signing up with the News Alerts. Visit: http://www.google.com/newsalerts

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Although AI was here long before the creation of computers, today it generally falls under the domain of computer science. Artificial Intelligence interests me more then any thing else in CS. I truly believe that AI exists and is only limited to how we define it. When asked in the class (yup we are studying this at the university) I defined AI as 'The phenomena on which something (man\machine)

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They all talk about making backups. Every one advices you to do it and when you are least expecting it, it happens... , by then its too late to do anything about your lost data (remember: it's no use crying on spilt milk). It happened to me when my hard disk went down in sparks of glory (I would say two samll puffs of smoke) one beautiful summer day this May. In retrospect I had lost around

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What keeps me up at nights and dull in the days is hair loss and wait gain respectively, they are growing out of proportions for the past few months. I have to admit that my face is turning into a skinned football (except for the modern goatee is supports). The two concerns simply top the list of things which I have complexes and insecurities about. But what can I do… It’s hard to acknowledge,

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Surfing my usual way across the web I came to this Interesting survey a couple of months back. I trotted of to it today once again to put its results in here: The survey asked: What .NET Language are you using? 5255 voters replied… - C++.NET 3% - 186 Users - C#.NET 47% - 2510 Users - VB.NET 43% - 2302 Users - Jscript.NET 0% - 44 Users - J#.NET 0% - 39 Users - Perl.NET

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The .NET Framework Classes (FCLs) are notorious for reducing heavy duty tasks to a simple one liners. Opening the default program is no exception either. All you have to do is call up System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() and feed the Process.Start() static method with the name of the file (along with it's path) you want to open, incidentally you can even place a link like the famous "http://

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Today is a happy day for me. After all the grumpy planning I was able to launch the .NET User Group Karachi… The online extension for the group is at http://groups.msn.com/dnug/. So if you live in Karachi… Just hurry up and register online before our inaugural meet on Saturday, August 16, 2003 at SZABIST, 100 Clifton.

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Yawn… The hectic schedule is squeezing the lights out of me. My first Numerical Analysis class was out of the world. The teacher was great and guess what I managed to get half of what he was hard at explaining to the rest of the class. A point I feel like sharing from the class is ‘Profiling’. So what’s profiling you ask? Well in simple words its making sure that your code is the fastest and

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Its bit hard to believe, but I was planning for this blog for quite some time and today it looks like that I finally made it through... Whew! After all those man hours spent searching for a decent blogging tool, I figured Blogger to be a sweet deal (after all it is free). Like all serious stuff let's start this formally-- Ummm... Let me introduce my self. My name's Rai Umair but friends and

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